Wednesday, January 28, 2009

You Send-It: Send Large Files Quickly and Easily

Scenario: You want to email a large file but there's a limit on the size of your attachments
Solution: YouSendIt lets you email files up to 100mb for free



I've grown to develop a good degree of sympathy for people who work on IT help-desks. Having to deal with endless streams of impatient, incompetent middle managers every day, five days a week must be somewhat soul-destroying

But one of the help-desk mandated rules that I always struggled with was the email attachment size limit. You probably suffer the same problem at home with your personal email account whereby you can't send an email with an attachment over and above a certain size.

The whole thing just seems grossly unfair and ofter makes emailing images, video clips and audio files impossible.


Then along came YouSendIt sauntering into town like a bandwidth sugar daddy. This free service lets you send files up to 100mb to any email address - the trick being that you don't send the physical file but instead send a LINK to the file that lives on the YouSendIt servers.

This is a great tool for business or personal use and if you work in an industry where files are often being bounced back and forth but your IT department are like digital pit-bulls, this could be a lifesaver.

Check out the video review above for a walk-through of some of the features

2 comments:

Diana said...

2Large2Email is this other great service which you can use to send large files online.

Hillsy said...

Hi Diana,

I haven't tried 2Large2Email but I'll check it out. I wonder how long these services are going to be able to remain free/ad-supported.....especially in this economy.